Researcher's site: Joe Stouffer
ORCID: 0000-0003-2652-3953

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Contact Information

Email: stoufferj@brandonu.ca

Research Interests

Dr. Joe Stouffer holds a PhD in Language and Literacy Education from the University of British Columbia and is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Brandon University Faculty of Education. His teaching and research interests include early literacy development, literacy interventions, and teachers' use of formative assessment in reading and writing instruction. A former classroom teacher and Reading Recovery Teacher Leader, he has also supported K-8 literacy instruction as a consultant in schools across Canada. Dr. Stouffer is the recipient of the 2022 Brandon University Senate Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Featured publications:

Stouffer, J., Sutherland, K., & Matczuk, A. (accepted). Broadening the conversation: Critical questions amidst narrowing views of classroom reading instruction. Language & Literacy. 

Foord, D., & Stouffer, J. (2025). Navigating polarizing discourse: An instructional coach’s steering through the reading wars. Journal of Classroom Research in Literacy, 25, 17-38. https://jcrl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/jcrl/article/view/44655/33980

Stouffer, J. (2023). Write it out: A teaching response to foster complete word analysis. The Reading Teacher, 44(7), 414-417. https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trtr.2242

Stouffer, J., & Van Dyke, J. (2023). Stones from a glass house: The paradoxical condemnation of Reading Recovery in the Ontario Human Rights Commission Right to Read Report. Journal of Teaching and Learning, 17(1), 52-71. https://doi.org/10.22329/JTL.V17I1.7426

Stouffer, J., Kasamali, Z., Di Muro, M., Lam, M., & Watson, E., (2023). Transactions of online literacy: Ethical relationality, ICT, and critical reading skills in the post-truth era. In L. Parker (Ed.), Education in the Age of Misinformation (pp. 163-186). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25871-8

Stouffer, J. (2021). Seeking middle ground: Analyzing running records from the top and bottom. The Reading Teacher, 74(6), 769-784. https://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.2012

PAWs - Proficiency Assessment of Writing: A system to enhance the assessment of daily K-6 classroom writing. www.joestoufferliteracy.com/styled-2/index.html/

Purcell-Gates, V., Duke, N., Stouffer, J. (2016). Teaching literacy: Reading. In Drew H. Gitomer & Courtney A. Bell (Eds.), The Handbook of Research on Teaching 5^th Ed. (1217-1268). American Educational Research Association.

Stouffer, J. (2016). A palette of excellence: Contextualizing the reported benefits of Reading Recovery training to Canadian primary classroom teachers. The Journal of Reading Recovery, 15(2), 31-48.

Stouffer, J. (2011). Listening to yourself reading: Exploring the role of auditory input to literacy processing. The Journal of Reading Recovery, 11(2), 15-28

Research Area

early literacy

Keywords

early literacy; Reading Recovery; literacy intervention; English Language Arts; reading wars

Field(s)

Curriculum & Pedagogy